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fasciatus or latifrons? - Helophilus fasciatus - male
Copyright © 2019 Seth Ausubel

fasciatus or latifrons? - Helophilus fasciatus - Male
New Hope/Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
April 25, 2019
And how do you tell the two apart?
Contributed by Seth Ausubel on 25 April, 2019 - 12:53pm

Moved
Moved from Helophilus.
… Seth Ausubel, 25 April, 2019 - 1:21pm

Helophilus fasciatus .... mal
Helophilus fasciatus .... male.
H. latifasciatus male has the distance between eyes on frons wider and the two basal antennal segments are black.
… Bill Dean, 25 April, 2019 - 1:19pm

 
Thank
you.
… Seth Ausubel, 25 April, 2019 - 1:21pm

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